Features

eBook Review: The Underground Guide to International Volunteering

May 10, 2010

eBooks on volunteering have the hidden ability to make you feel really inadequate. They’re full of smiling tourists in the throes of painting fish on the side of schoolhouses, or at their worst they feature a platoon of African children clambering over themselves to get in the photo with the pale protagonist of their village. […]

Click here to read the full article →

Don’t be a Fatpacker

April 27, 2010

Fatpackers don’t just carry the weight of the world on their shoulders, they carry it on their waists, their thighs and their unsupported ankles. They huff through alleyways, puff on trains and wheeze their way through the best travel destinations in the world. Take the weight off your feet, and consider these reasons to stay […]

Click here to read the full article →

Tax Information for British Travellers

April 20, 2010

When I ponder over life in England, I see vast expanses of countryside, spliced by ditches, rivers and Roman roads. Then I think of tax. Nasty, black, oozing tax. British travellers often believe that travelling is an escape from the taxmen, however few who travel realise the beast is still tapping their savings. Here’s an […]

Click here to read the full article →

The List of all Lists

April 2, 2010

If there’s one thing a good travel blogger likes, it’s a list. We could munch through twenty or more lists in a day. To-do lists. Must-do lists. Been-there-done-that lists. Slept with a Frenchman lists. Twitter lists. Packing lists. The list goes on. But if there’s one list the modern day travel blog author needs, it’s […]

Click here to read the full article →

Echoes of Travel

March 1, 2010

I know. I know. You’ve visited every day for the passed six weeks, and all I’ve offered your weary eyes is a set of cryptic text messages. It’s been a funny old year, 2010. The traditional births, deaths and marriages have all crossed my path, and the only job I managed to secure tied me […]

Click here to read the full article →

The Txt Trail (Part III)

February 21, 2010

I hereby bring about the conclusion to this fascinating journey through a backpacker’s mobile phone, namely my own. In this litany of lairy and libellous e-notes, I arrive in Wellington, New Zealand where sleeping dogs howl beneath the native yellow missiles.

Click here to read the full article →

The Txt Trail (Part II)

February 18, 2010

Part Deux in the The Txt Trail continues to explore the secret files of my loyal Sony Ericsson; the cell of my mind and it’s electronic notes. It’s kind of like the Da Vinci Code meets Postman Pat. Only it’s smothered in incest, and giant mandarins. So more Noddy, than Postman Pat.

Click here to read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →